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Permanent hair dyes and bladder cancer: risk modification by cytochrome P4501A2 and N-acetyltransferases 1 and 2.
Carcinogenesis - 1 Mar 2003
Gago-Dominguez Manuela, Bell Douglas A, Watson Mary A, Yuan Jian-Min, Castelao J Esteban, Hein David W, Chan Kenneth K, Coetzee Gerhard A, Ross Ronald K, Yu Mimi C
Abstract excerpt
We have previously reported permanent hair dye use to be a significant risk factor for bladder cancer in US women. We also have examined N-acetyltransferase-2 (NAT2) phenotype in relation to the hair dye-bladder cancer relationship, and found that the association is principally confined to NAT2 slow acetylators. In the present study, we assessed the possible modifying effects of a series of potential...
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